Poll: Growing number of Americans say Obama a Muslim; more Republicans say he’s Muslim than Christian

It’s not true, but that doesn’t stop a lot — and we mean a lot — of Americans from believing it.

A new poll released today by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that 18 percent of American adults believe that their president is an adherent of the Muslim faith — up from 11 percent last year.

President Obama speaks in the Rose Garden. (Meredith McDermott/Hearst Newspapers)

Meanwhile, just 34 percent of Americans say that Barack Obama is a Christian, down from 48 percent a year ago.

Obama is a Christian Protestant.

The misperception about the president is strongest among Republicans. More GOP adherents insist that Obama is a Muslim than believe he is a Christian. Thirty-one percent say he is a Muslim, while 27 percent say he is a Christian and 39 percent say they’re not sure.

That’s a massive turnaround in the minds of American Republicans. A year ago, by 47 percent to 17 percent, Republicans acknowledged that Obama is a Christian.

The Pew poll showed a direct relationship between approval of Obama’s job performance and beliefs about Obama’s religion. The more a voter hates Obama — just 7 percent of conservative Republicans approve of his job performance — the more likely he or she is to believe that their president is faithful to Islam. (Thirty-four percent of conservative Republicans say Obama is a Muslim; 28 percent say he’s a Christian.)

Catholics, Mainline Protestants and “unaligned” Americans are much more likely to call Obama a Christian than a Muslim. But more evangelical Christians say he’s a Muslim than a Christian.

“When asked how they learned about Obama’s religion in an open-ended question, 60 percent of those who say Obama is a Muslim cite the media,” the Pew analysis indicated. “Among specific media sources, television (at 16 percent) is mentioned most frequently. About one-in-ten (11 percent) of those who say Obama is a Muslim say they learned of this through Obama’s own words and behavior.”

I’m FAR more interested in if people view him as a radical socialist, or they view him as a possible puppet to advance radical Islam… merely his religion isn’t of any consequence. Where he was actually born and all the records that were sealed would be interesting too.

If the conclusion of the poll is to show how gullible and stupid the American electorate can be, that has already been well demonstrated by their allowing George W. Bush to assume The White House. That a majority of Republicans can swallow such rubbish, is a testament to how low in the intelligence barrel the corporate Right has had to dip to find mindless supporters they can manipulate to do something equally as stupid again.

I’m not a repub, but given his childhood living in Indonesia getting a muslim education, telling Nasa to reachout to the muslim world, going to the MidEast and saying the US is a muslim nation, and now with the comment about the mosque does make people wonder.
To top it off, the ACLU is now for religious freedom, except for Jews & Christians..better not complain about a Nativity scene at Christmas, or a Menorah at Chanukah.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. Even if he were a muslim, in this country that’s supposed to be OK. The sad part of it all is that Americans are so preoccupied with religion that we are not dealing with the real and critical issues facing our survival as a nation. How can we denigrate the muslim states that determine their political and social agendas according to their narrow minded religious beliefs when we are rapidly moving into the same behavior? If we become a theocracy, we are no better than the muslim extremists. Let’s get religion back in the church and home and keep it out of politics the way our constitution tells us to. The polarized left and right are also thinking in the same delusional mode as religious fanatics. Public policies, laws, economic programs need to be pragmatic, not a matter of some ideology. I don’t believe that the current administration is necessarily on the right path, but I am amazed at how so many people, having witnessed the financial catastrophe that resulted from the agenda of the right want to put the same people back in power. Einstein said that insanity is repeating the same behavior over and over and expecting a different outcome. Decisions made on the basis of an absolute belief system, be it religious or political fits this description perfectly. By making religion the issue, politicians are manipulating a segment of the population to achieve and maintain power, and maintaining power, not bringing about positive change is always the first priority of politicians. It’s so sad that so many otherwise good people fall for it. Always have, always will.

Carl Gottstein Jr. – You are giving freedom of speech a bad name, as well as any educational system that had the gall to spit you out into the adult world, or was the third grade your “senior year”? We have all been waiting for you to say something that is not just doctrinal rubbish, Glenn Beck talking points and cheap shots based on someones middle name.

Does it really matter who believes what fairy tale about how the world came to be? They’re all fairy tales, for chrissake! And stupid people kill each other (actually and figuratively) over them! All the time! For eons!

Talking snakes and magic carpets. What a bunch of gullible morons we humans be.

We have an American taliban right here, it called the evangelical christians.

If you do not have a “personal relationship with Jesus Christ or have gone through a spiritual awakening and accepted Jesus Christ as your savior” then you are destined for hell when the second coming occurs.
( And it seems that the second coming is always just about to happen, doesn’t it?)

Seems that “Christians” have no tolerance for anyone who will not accept their demands to “be saved”. Kind of sounds like radical islamists to me, except they use the word “infidel”,instead of “unsaved” and no matter what, if you do not conform you will die.

Here’s a thought… do you ever wonder why it is that a VAST majority of these so-called “christians’ are also the same people who protest about their rights to carry arms, they seem to vote only for war mongering republicans , and are far more concerned with the military might of our country than tolerance? Is is a “god-given” right to carry a weapopn to kill? Is their God a god of violence? I do not hear my parish priest out there saying thank god for guns, I hear him telling us to do unto others.

So, let’s elect Sarah Palin ( or some other “freedom loving, christian like her) and when someone pisses her off, let her “nuke ‘em” and bring about the armegeddon that she and her minions are clamoring for. But a word of advice before you do, make sure that Karl Rove has been saved, because when they carry out the destruction of this planet and then have to stand in front of GOD, you better have the ultimate spinmeister out in front to explain to God how they destroyed the most precious gift he gave us , this beautiful planet that the “saved” have destroyed, in his name.

NO 9~11 Mosque because it will incite violence and hatred, pain and anguish.

Its not right.

This could be such a simple issue but of course instead of coming to the honest view that as the people have spoken and the visceral response is so overwhelming “NO 9~11 MOSQUE is a good idea, Democrats brand opposition as racist and bigoted to win VOTES!

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Almost all American Muslins are welcome and loved and respected.

As long as they leave Sharia and Jihad at the door. We all know Sharia Law and its followers are dangerous to America.

THEY KILL AN AMERICAN ALMOST EVERY DAY!

WE know they are all over the world waiting to see the outcome. B.Hussein Obama is their HERO now. Most Muslims who come to America to be American, but not all! Most want no part of “Sharia law”, just like everybody else they want FREEDOM!

But not all.

Most Dont want peoples ARM CUT OFF or PRIVATE PARTS MUTILATED or to sell FEMALE CHILDREN INTO SEXUAL BONDAGE etc etc ask almost any Muslim you happen to see, Most say Sharia is EVIL!

BUT NOT ALL!

THE 9~11 Mosque Imam Promotes Sharia LAW in the USA! He now has a buddy named BARAK HUSEIN OBAMA !

And now THIS SHARIA LAW PROMOTING IMAM is on a “Presidential” VIP USA TAXPAYER FUNDED GLOBAL VACATION/FUNDRAISER TOUR to build a HUGE VICTORY MOSQUE NEAR GROUND ZERO!

What is going on in America?

Am I lost in a nightmare here?

Somebody Slap Me!

THIS IS OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF??!!
THE People are furious, WAKE THE …. UP!